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red750 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Today's gripe: All those dumb influencer posts/articles about "must have" items, like a left-handed ratchet butter knife. They are NOT must have, they are "you might like but don't need". Or those "crazy hack" items that everyone is going mad about, like the gilded birdcage for keeping your toilet rolls in. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 OK - here's my gripe: On 18/07/2024 at 11:32 PM, nomadpete said: Arnotts ORIGINAL Tim Tams? They have got more hide than Jessie the elephant. It's a scam. There's no such thing as 'original' Tim Tams, not since that american mob bought the company. You don't really believe that you can get REAL buscuits from an american soup company? Oh darn. There I go again, tainting this nice positive thread with a gripe. OK, here's a positive. It was a great idea to make dark chilli chocolate Tim Tams. (Cross posted form the Celebrating positives threads). It's not @nomadpete's thread at all, but I was reading this article (turn of javascript to read it): https://www.theage.com.au/national/more-than-20-craft-brewers-have-fizzed-out-in-the-past-year-what-s-happening-20240701-p5jq7r.html In the article, it is claimed that two brewers control 90% of the beer market in Australia. Both are Japanese: Asahi and Lion. And at the same time, ACCC allows lock in/lock out clauses foisted on pubs by the two brewers and doesn't see that as distoring competition? And WTF is FIRB thinking allowing this stuff. Will have to read the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act to work out what discretion they have to block such ship happening. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 My best mate from high-school had a son who became a jetstar pilot with his dad's help. Then he and a couple of other pilots bought a boutique brewery in Cairns and left the flying business. Gosh I hope they are financially ok.The dad has died so I can't just ask him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I think I mentioned a mate at the Shed told me his son was out of work, he had been a Rex 737 pilot. He told me yesterday his son was on the way to India to a flying job there. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) There's always trouble brewing in the Airlines so getting out of it can be a plus. You don't live from medical to medical, either. Nev Edited August 17 by facthunter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I have a nephew, who fly's for Emirates airline . No cheap tickets there . LoL spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Why would you expect there to be? Discounts for immediate family are covered in employment contracts. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kangaroojack Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 On 17/08/2024 at 5:55 PM, spacesailor said: I have a nephew, who fly's for Emirates airline . No cheap tickets there . LoL spacesailor true still wanna try it for a long haul flight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 My gripe today is those magazines which offer part of something on the cover, but you have to keep buying is to complete the object. There is one out at the moment on the Lancaster Bomber. Issue 1 $4.99. Issue 2 $12.99 Issue 3 onwards $21.99 each. Total 130 issues. Details and video here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Buy a Tamiya kit, cheaper in the long run and you don't have 130 magazines to take to the tip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 The magazine one's cost are: Issue 1 $4.99. Issue 2 $12.99 Issue 3 onwards $21.99 each. Total 130 issues = $2832.70 over 32 months. And you've got to wonder about a mob named hachette part works. Border Models 1/32 Lancaster available in Australia for $799. This is supposed to be the bee's knees. https://www.frontlinehobbies.com.au/border-model-1-32-avro-lancaster-b.-mki-iii-w-full?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwoJa2BhBPEiwA0l0ImIkVjQYuLeSF3MAQqOBHfXtOyOZuEuWmxlHIXZ6NGAyUIaVpTIgWUxoCkaAQAvD_BwE 66cm x 97cm (or 66cm x 28cm with outer wings removed). Highly detailed RR Merlin XX (for B.Mk.1) or Packard V-1650-1 Merlin 28 (for B.Mk.III). Internal canopy framing. Dropped flaps. Removable outboard wing sections for ease of display. WWII era fabric covered elevators. European theatre radiators and nacelle intakes. Optional early & late tailwheels, unweighted or weighted (with full bomb load) main wheels, H2s Radar, 500lb (UK & USA), 1000lb, 4000lb “Cookie” and SBC bombs, FN.20 or FN.120 rear turret with optional cut away perspex, early & late bomb aimer’s blisters & windows. Optional dummy engine blocks so you don’t need to assemble complete engines to build model. Early DH.5/40 (needle) & late A5/138 (paddle) type propellers & spinners. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 I bought the " robot " . Little bits by a magazine. Ended up about a $ 1,000 . It wasn't that good . spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 They say there's one born every minute, and a fool and his money are soon parted. The are PREYING on you. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Why not make a wooden model? the cost is bugger-all compared with those plastic ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 View the video in the link in my post to see the features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 On Channel 7's streaming app, 7plus, you can fast forward or step through the program, but not the commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Smart TV can zoom through the commercials by recording the program your watching, so when you make the tea & popcorn . You go back to the part you didn't see , then fast forward through those adds . Untill you catchup . spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Streaming on the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 3 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said: Why not make a wooden model? Any comparison of today's scale model plastic kits to those produced in the past is mind-boggling. The level of detail in modern kits is one thing, but the accuracy of the fit is something else. In the past one needed a tube of modeling putty to fill the gap between, say, fuselage halves. Nowadays they align with 99.9% accuracy. And the detail provided for interiors is incredible. That's why that Lancaster kit I referred to is so expensive. I would describe the final result of its assembly as being of museum quality. It makes a big model as well. In 1:72 scale dimensions are Length: 295 mm. Wingspan: 428 mm, so in 1:32 it would be a tad over twice that big. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Wingspan 971.55 mm Length 667.5 mm Height 192 mm landing gear down Diecast metal and plastic. Engines start realistically and individually, by remote controller Operating undercarraige and lights Removable cockpit canopy and fuselage top showing detailed crew stations. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 I've got a model kit of the Endeavour still in the box. It was given to me as a gift in 1995 and I think it was around the $100 mark back then. I see that models the same scale are around $450 these days. I never got to make a start on it; it's sat in the box for almost 30 years. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 You may have an investment? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 At long last I did what I knew I shouldn't. I let this tablet update itself, ( after 2 years ) , now I'm fighting to make sense of of these unwanted " improvements " . Who would use a split keyboard! . QWERT on the left of screen & YUIOP on the right . A ' cog ' that brings up " Samsung keyboard " settings. No way to remove it yet . But it will have to go . as my finger muscle memory keeps touching it , then have to leave page to deleat unwanted , just to select this page again . A pain . Not haveing a " go back " button on that ' setting ' page . spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 LIFE wasn't meant to be easy. (Mal Frazer). Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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